Friday, May 31, 2013

The Pentagon's Putting Its Big Brother Data Collection in the Cloud

The Pentagon's Putting Its Big Brother Data Collection in the Cloud

News emerged this week that the U.S. Army, which has been collecting biometric data of locals in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, is going to start storing that data in the cloud. Put simply, biometrics is the collection of personal, physical data using devices like retina scanners, and no matter what way you spin the situation, it's a potentially pretty creepy practice. (Do you want the government to take pictures of the inside of your eyeball?) But in a warzone, it seems downright dangerous. Doubly so in the cloud.

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/wbnULvx_b64/the-pentagons-putting-its-big-brother-data-collection-510509329

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